Research Tools

Government

Congress.gov Library of Congress website about the United States Congress containing the full-text of Congressional publications (bills, hearings, reports, debates, and statutes). It also contains committee information and information on the legislative process.

CQ Press Library This is a reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Includes the following databases: CQ Researcher; CQ Congress Collection; CQ Voting and Elections Collection; CQ Historic Document Series; and CQ Weekly.

Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) Provides searching and fulltext access to declassified U.S. government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism, and more.

FDsys GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides public access to Government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies. Government information includes Congressional and Executive documents.

FiscalNoteFor policy and legal professionals who need insight into legislative activity, FiscalNote's searching, tracking, and analysis capabilities provide relevant and timely legislative data from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Congress. Prophecy uses data, coupled with machine learning, to determine legislator sentiment and forecast policy outcomes. ** For law school community ONLY -- contact Michelle Trumbo at mbotek@indiana.edu to obtain an account.**

HathiTrust Digital LibraryHathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository, which provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.

HeinOnlineProvides full-text access to a large collection of legal periodicals and The Federal Register.

Indiana Cases This free government site contains Indiana cases from the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and the Tax Court from January 1999. It also contains tax case summaries, Supreme Court Rule amendments, and a schedule of oral arguments.

Indiana Code Contains keyword searchable version of the Indiana Code as well as the ability to browse by title and section.

Indiana Historical ResourcesState documents accessible from the website of the Indiana Historical Bureau. Incudes: documents leading to the statehood of Indiana; Indiana constitutions of 1816 and 1851, with links to the digitized two-volume set of the Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Indiana 1850.

LexisNexis State CapitalLegislative, regulatory and related information from the fifty states of the U.S. and the District of Columbia.

Library of Congress: Documents from the Continental Congress & the Constitutional Convention (1774-1789)The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (256 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

LLMC Digital LLMC Digital contains government documents from all periods of the United States. Many of these documents are not likely to be held by our library in paper.

Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Briefs (1832 - 1978)Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system.

MunicodeDatabase contains municipal codes from a variety of jurisdictions nationwide.

PACER This government database provides access to federal court docketing information. The database contains images of some filed documents available for download. Please see a Reference Librarian for assistance with this database.

ProQuest CongressionalA comprehensive resource for U.S. Congressional publications providing indexing, abstracts, and full text (PDFs and html) for legislative documents from 1789 forward. Documents include committee reports, House and Senate documents, committee prints, bills, hearings, Public Laws, Statutes at Large, the Congressional Record, and more.

ProQuest Legislative InsightThis database is a Federal legislative history service that makes available compilations of digital full text publicationscreated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.

ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United StatesProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States 2013 online edition provides line-item access to tables, is updated monthly, and features table-specific capabilities for narrowing results by source, data date, subject, type of data breakdown. The Statistical Abstract is a great place to begin a search for statistical information since the footnotes lead you to the original source for these statistics.

ProQuest Statistical InsightElectronic access to tables and citations to statistics produced by the U.S. federal, state and local governments, international governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations.

Database providing electronic access to historical as well as current indexes to documents products by government agencies. Coverage: 1700s to date.

Regulations.govRegulations.gov is your source for information on the development of Federal regulations and other related documents issued by the U.S. government. Through this site, you can find, read, and comment on regulatory issues.